Tubular carrier.



UNITED- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

mm '0. HOAGLAND, or-nsmenronr, commences, assrenon TO THE UNION mnunmc canrmnen comm, or nsmenronr, commences, a conronerron OF CONNECTICUT.

TUBULAR CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Iatent. Application filed February 28, 1912. Serial No. 680,558.

Patented May 7, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK-O. HoAoLANn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport. count of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Tubular Carriers, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to the class of tubular carriers illustrated and described in patent to Drake, Number 869,484, dated Oct0- ber 29, 1907, and has for its object to s1mplify and cheapen their construction and to reatly improve their operation in use. This I accomplish by dispensing with the use of plugs and forming the closures at both ends of the body from the material of the body itself. I thus avoid the use of separate arts and provide an absolutely safe and e ective closure at each end of the body which cannot be opened or displaced by the contents in handling or transportation and which cannot be opened except in the regular way. a

With these and other objects. in v ew, I have devised the novel tubular carrier of which the following description in connection with the accompanying drawmg is a. specification, reference characters being used to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is an end view of the carrier with the closing piece in the closing position. Fig. 2, an elevation corresponding therewith. Fig. 3, a section on the line 3-3 in Figs. 1 and 5. Fi 4, an end view illustrating a slightly variant form. Fig. 5, an elevation corresponding therewith. Flg. 6, a view illustrating the mode of openin the carrier; and Fig. 7 is a similar view s owing the carrier opened for filling or for the removal of its contents.

10 denotes the bod which is a tube of paper or other suitab e material made sufiiciently heavy to give the necessary strength and lrigidity for carriers of the required lengt In the present instance, I have illustrated the device in use as a cartrid e carrier or holder. The cartridges are aced in the carrier-with the bullet ends Barward. For convenience in description I will refer to the loading end of the carrier as the base and the ot er end as the tip. Near the tip of the body, I make one or more indentations 12 in circular arrangement. These indentations permit the ho y of the first cartridge to pass freely but are engaged by its head, as clearly shown in Fig. 5, and revent the cartridge from passing out. T e indentations are shown as placed far enough from the end of the bod to leave the bullet end of the first cartri ge effectually protected,

'as in Fig. 5.

The base of the tube is closed by, what I term, a closin piece, indicated b 13, which is a strip of t e material of the ody itself. This closing piece may be formed as in Figs. 1, 2, 6 and 7, by making a sin le cross cut in the body at a short distance from the end leaving both ends of the closing piece attached and sprin ing the closing piece, a. e., the material 0 the body between the cross cut and the end inward as in Figs. 1 and 2. This construction enables me to shorten the body to the minimum and provides a perfectly safe closure which will securely retain the cartridges in the body, is not detachable, will not open in use and will last as long as the body. It will be noted that the closing piece is an arc corresponding with the curvature of the body. The material of the body is sufiiciently resilient so that the closin piece must remain in either the open or c osed position; this for the reason that the closing piece is longer than the chord of the are and must be pushed past a line corresponding with the chord of the are in either openlng or closing. It should be noted that the construction is such as to reduce the length of the body to the minimum, thus effecting a saving in the cost of stock.

If referred, the bodies may be made slight y longer, as in Figs. 4 and 5, and the closing piece may be formed b making two cross cuts instead of by ma 'ng a single cross out near the end as in the other form.

In use, the closing of a carrier is effected by springing the closing piece inward from the osition shown in Fig. 7 to that shown in t e other views. It will be noted that the closing piece in this osition effectually bars the escape of cartri ges from the body. To open, it is simply required to take any convenient implement, as a lead pencil, and

spring the closing piece outward which will leave the passage unobstructed as in Fi 7. To close a tube after removing cartridges or refilling, the closing iece is simply pressed inward to the c osing position, which can be readily done with the finger without any implement whatever. The resiliency of the material of the tube will then cause the closing piece-to remain in the closing position until it is pressed outward again to open, as in Fig. 6.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A carrier of the character described comprising a tubular body having near one end an indentation ada ted to be enga ed by the contents and at the other end a c osing piece consisting of a strip of the material of the body attached at the ends only and adapted to be sprung into and out of.

the closing position.

2. A carrier of the character described comprising a tubular body, means for preventing the escape of the contents at the tip of the body and a closing piece at the ot er end conslsting of a strip of the material of the body attached at the ends only and adapted to be sprung into and out of the closing position.

3. A earner of the character described comprising a tubular body having near its tip an indentation adapted to be engaged by the head of a cartridge, said body extendin beyond the indentation to protect the b et end of the cartridge.

4. A carrier of the character described comprising a tubular body having at one end a closing iece consistin of a strip of the material 0 the body attached at the ends only and adapted to be sprung into and out of the closing position.

5. A carrier of the character described, comprising a tubular body having near one end an indentation ada ted to be engaged by the contents and at te other end a closing iece formed by making a cross cut in the 0d leaving a strip, attached at the ends 0 y, which may be sprung into and out of the closing position.

In testimon whereof I afiix my signature in presence 0 two witnesses.

FRANK O. HOAGLAND.

Witnesses:

AUSTIN J. Bnurr, EDWARD H. ALLEN.

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